Re: [libreoffice-users] Book

On 26/05/17 14:31, toki wrote: On 05/25/2017 10:11 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: I've seen documents with 20,000 + styles, across paragraph, character, That are surely no custom styles, but likely the automatic styles Custom styles. Instead of modifying the default style, a new style was

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book

On 05/25/2017 10:11 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: >> I've seen documents with 20,000 + styles, across paragraph, character, > That are surely no custom styles, but likely the automatic styles Custom styles. Instead of modifying the default style, a new style was created, whenever something was

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book

Hi Jonathon, toki schrieb: On 05/25/2017 12:09 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: The ODF specification part 1 has more than 800 pages and about 90 custom styles. That gives no problems for me; Windows 7 with 4GB Ram and a Windows-Score of 4.3. I've seen documents with 20,000 + styles, across

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On 05/25/2017 12:09 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > The ODF specification part 1 has more than 800 pages and about 90 custom > styles. That gives no problems for me; Windows 7 with 4GB Ram and a > Windows-Score of 4.3. I've seen documents with 20,000 + styles, across paragraph, character, list, and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book

On Wed, 24 May 2017 19:56:33 -0400 "Brian Grawburg" dijo: >I am in the process of converting 177 pages of my study notes on the >NT book of Romans from Lotus WordPro to LibreOffice. I have two more >large "books" to convert after this.  I've thought about breaking it >up

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book

Hi Jonathon, toki schrieb: On 05/24/2017 11:56 PM, Brian Grawburg wrote: There are several different type faces, including Greek, which may slow things down. The only slow down is from applying the appropriate styles. My recommendation is to use language specific styles. I've also

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Consider also using master documents (.odm). Its styles overrides the one on the single documents embedded in it. Il 25 mag 2017 4:36 AM, "toki" ha scritto: > On 05/24/2017 11:56 PM, Brian Grawburg wrote: > > >There are several different type faces, including Greek,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book

On 05/24/2017 11:56 PM, Brian Grawburg wrote: >There are several different type faces, including Greek, which may slow things >down. The only slow down is from applying the appropriate styles. My recommendation is to use language specific styles. > I've also wondered about not using

[libreoffice-users] Book

I am in the process of converting 177 pages of my study notes on the NT book of Romans from Lotus WordPro to LibreOffice. I have two more large "books" to convert after this.  I've thought about breaking it up into 4 smaller sections because it takes several seconds to go from page to page.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

On 08/15/2013 08:20 AM, Fernand Vanrie wrote: trie the Elaix extension On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried converting the entire 390 page Getting Started book to EPUB. It choked. I then tried doing the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

On 14/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: display graphics, it's not very elegant. I've found that books with anything more than a stream of text create issues for the Kindle. Thankfully there are a multitude of other devices available with the better advantage of epub

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

On 14/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: display graphics, it's not very elegant. I've found that books with anything more than a stream of text create issues for the Kindle. Ultimately, in the end, you have to export (save as) to HTML anyway (to import into Calibre).

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

: Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013, 13:27 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer On 08/15/2013 08:20 AM, Fernand Vanrie wrote: trie the Elaix extension On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

On Friday, August 16, 2013, jack wallen wrote: On 14/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com javascript:; wrote: display graphics, it's not very elegant. I've found that books with anything more than a stream of text create issues for the Kindle. Ultimately, in the end, you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Wrong! Calibre does a great job of converting .odt to ePub without an intermediate conversion to HTML. That may be the case, but formatting from HTML will render better results when doing the conversion. This is especially true when uploading books to Barnes Nobel. Their meatgrinder doesn't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Nice reply Brian and spot on. And correct it is a quirk of IE to see a file with a compressed content, and assume it's a zip. And again I continue my head scratching until I'm bald, as to why people still want to use IE with it's archaic code, and ongoing quirks and security flaws. This when

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

trie the Elaix extension On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried converting the entire 390 page Getting Started book to EPUB. It choked. I then tried doing the same with just the 18 page introduction. Same

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried converting the entire 390 page Getting Started book to EPUB. It choked. I then tried doing the same with just the 18 page introduction. Same result. No EPUB output file

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

cuyfa...@hotmail.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 10:44 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried converting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

De: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Para: e-letter inp...@gmail.com; Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com CC: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Enviado: Miércoles 14 de agosto de 2013 12:30 Asunto: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 11:47 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Hi. Has anybody tried to do the exporting with eLAIX? It's in the official LO extensions repository, and I think it works quite well: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

changes. Virgil -Original Message- From: jorge Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:43 PM To: Virgil Arrington Cc: Kracked_P_P---webmaster ; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Hi all ! Virgil, How did you try to install the writer2epub

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

- From: e-letter Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 5:44 AM To: Virgil Arrington Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

-letter inp...@gmail.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 12:45 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer I was just playing around. I'm not so motivated as to do all of what you're suggesting. I've had a Kindle now for a couple years, and I've

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

The strange thing was I didn’t extract the oxt from the zip. I simply renamed the zip to an oxt. There was no oxt file inside the zip. Virgil From: Tom Davies Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:36 PM To: Virgil Arrington ; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

At 21:02 14/08/2013 -0400, Virgil Arrington wrote: The strange thing was I didn't extract the oxt from the zip. I simply renamed the zip to an oxt. There was no oxt file inside the zip. You didn't need to. An .oxt file, like other ODF formats, is itself a zip archive. What has happened is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

:)  From: e-letter inp...@gmail.com To: Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com Cc: rost52 bugquestcon...@online.de; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 12:56 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer On 12/07/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 14:11 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Tom, Do you have a link to one of the guides? I may have a go at trying different ways of converting one to EPUB just to see how it works. Might be kind of fun. Virgil -Original

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experiment. Virgil -Original Message- From: Tom Davies Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:46 AM To: Virgil Arrington ; e-letter Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Hi :) Sorry, got distracted. Here's a link https

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

a half-hour experiment. Virgil -Original Message- From: Tom Davies Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:46 AM To: Virgil Arrington ; e-letter Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Hi :) Sorry, got distracted.  Here's a link https

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@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Hi :) That sounds a lot like LaTeX being best if you stick with their defaults so it kinda makes sense to me. I think the Docs Team (i think mostly Dan Jean wasn't it?) experimented with a few ways of getting ePubs

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

, 2013 2:58 PM To: Tom Davies Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer I just redid the Writer2epub test with my theology paper after applying default LO styles. It worked a *lot* better. I really liked the way it handled the default Text Body style

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:58 PM To: Tom Davies Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer I just redid the Writer2epub test with my theology paper after applying default LO styles. It worked a *lot* better. I really liked the way it handled

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

- From: Virgil Arrington Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:58 PM To: Tom Davies Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer I just redid the Writer2epub test with my theology paper after applying default LO styles. It worked a *lot* better. I really

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

: Kracked_P_P---webmaster Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:41 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer There is a version for AOO, several actually written by a guy with an Italian country code. One for version if for 3.x, another for 4.0

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer There is a version for AOO, several actually written by a guy with an Italian country code. One for version if for 3.x, another for 4.0, and a new Beta one. So you may need to look into which one you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer For example, several years ago, my 14 year old son challenged himself to type a 50,000 word novel in November, which is National Novel Writers Month. He met his goal, and quickly dropped the project. As a proud papa, I wanted to put his document

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer As a proud papa... I would open the document in Writer, select all and set styles to Default. Then create the styles I wanted and reformat the whole document. On 12.07.2013 01:17, Wolfgang Keller wrote: For example, several years ago, my

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

: Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: rost52 bugquestcon...@online.de; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 12 July 2013, 12:30 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer That works just fine. For my tastes, however, it's not quite as smooth a process or polished a result

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer On 07/11/2013 10:00 PM, rost52 wrote: As a proud papa... I would open the document in Writer, select all and set styles to Default. Then create the styles I wanted and reformat the whole document. On 12.07.2013 01:17, Wolfgang Keller wrote

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Virgil , the secret of styles for ebook publishing is the OutLineLevel you can uses any style but change your paragraph styles to the correct OutlineLevel TITEL = OutlineLevel 1 Subtitel = OutlineLevel 2

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: Friday, July 12, 2013 3:22 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Virgil , the secret of styles for ebook publishing is the OutLineLevel you can uses any style but change your paragraph styles to the correct OutlineLevel TITEL

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Hi Wolfgang, Wolfgang Keller schrieb: I don't believe I've heard of structure markup style concept and I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I used WordPerfect for years and could never quite get the hang of WP's styles, all the while I took to Word's and OO's (now LO's) styles quite easily.

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On 12/07/2013 at 16:09, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net wrote: Wordperfect (or e.g. Framemaker) styles allow to do structure markup. Word, OO and LO styles don't. In essence, this boils down to the fact that all sane document processing applications (whether Wordperfect, Framemaker or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Wolfgang, Forgive my ignorance, but I'm trying to understand what you're saying. You wrote: In essence, this boils down to the fact that all sane document processing applications (whether Wordperfect, Framemaker or dozens of others, LaTeX or anything that outputs structured XML) use nestable

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Wolfgang, You also wrote: The style concept of both Word and LO/OO however is so severely screwed up that I've never ever seen a document that would have allowed to re-use content in any other way (within the same application!) than by copying and pasting it as unformatted text and then

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

: Kracked_P_P---webmaster Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 9:08 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer On 07/10/2013 08:37 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: Urmas wrote: The tool that you use does not matter. Everything thay you write will be decomposed

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 11 July 2013, 11:56 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Okay, this is really spooky, or I'm just growing paranoid. Two days ago, I downloaded

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@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer On 07/10/2013 08:37 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: Urmas wrote: The tool that you use does not matter. Everything thay you write will be decomposed and virtually remade in the DTP program, most likely InDesign. You may be right

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

:)  From: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk To: Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 11 July 2013, 13:40 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Hi

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As a proud papa... I would open the document in Writer, select all and set styles to Default. Then create the styles I wanted and reformat the whole document. On 12.07.2013 01:17, Wolfgang Keller wrote: For example, several years ago, my 14 year old son challenged himself to type a 50,000 word

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

On 07/11/2013 10:00 PM, rost52 wrote: As a proud papa... I would open the document in Writer, select all and set styles to Default. Then create the styles I wanted and reformat the whole document. On 12.07.2013 01:17, Wolfgang Keller wrote: I'll reiterate this again -- if you're self

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Urmas wrote: The tool that you use does not matter. Everything thay you write will be decomposed and virtually remade in the DTP program, most likely InDesign. You may be right if the project goes to a professional publisher for final output. But, Pablo's original question stated he would be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

On 07/10/2013 08:37 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: Urmas wrote: The tool that you use does not matter. Everything thay you write will be decomposed and virtually remade in the DTP program, most likely InDesign. You may be right if the project goes to a professional publisher for final output.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

.  Regards from Tom :)  From: Mirosław Zalewski mini...@poczta.onet.pl To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 8 July 2013, 22:51 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer On 08/07/2013 at 22:58, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

:)  From: Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: Mirosław Zalewski mini...@poczta.onet.pl; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 1:29 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Miroslaw, You're right; I did merge *writing* and *publishing*. To that end, let me

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for it.  Regards from Tom :)  From: Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 8 July 2013, 21:58 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer snip / trying to write a book with LO Writer is like trying

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Ferand wrote, Virgil, please stop this crap, LO and OO are the right tools to produce any document any form any size, only the lack of knowledge is a barrier . All professional tools to produce a book are XML based like LO and OO, so start writing, use a simple style model , understood the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Hi :) When i first started using Writer i found i struggled against the software quite a bit. Often people try something new unaware of the baggage they bring with them (such as bad habits learned through

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Sorry, my original reply went off list. On 07/09/2013 12:10 AM, Pablo Dotro wrote: I thank you for your time and effort. I would prefer to stick to using LO... I seriously considered turning to LaTeX, but I truly feel a little overwhelmed with the amount of learning I would need to do in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Getting back to Pablo's original question, he asked about using master documents with sub-documents for each chapter. This is, in fact, the model used by many systems, from LaTeX to yWriter, as well as LO. But, I'm wondering how necessary it really is. The purpose of the master

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Jack, Just curious. Do you use LO's master document system for your books? Virgil -Original Message- From: Jack Wallen Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 7:12 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Sorry, my original reply went off

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Here is a resend of a reply that seemed not to get to the system, so I have been told. On 07/08/2013 06:32 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 07/08/2013 05:51 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 08/07/2013 at 22:58, Virgil Arringtoncuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: but to me trying to write a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

On 07/09/2013 07:27 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: Ferand wrote, Virgil, please stop this crap, LO and OO are the right tools to produce any document any form any size, only the lack of knowledge is a barrier . All professional tools to produce a book are XML based like LO and OO, so start

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

:) From: Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: Mirosław Zalewski mini...@poczta.onet.pl; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 1:29 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Miroslaw, You're right; I did merge *writing* and *publishing*. To that end, let me muddy

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On 7/9/13 2:12 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Writer, Word and WordPerfect and others do seem to be designed for business letters and fairly short works. LaTeX (and the various front-ends (such as LyX) that attempt to make it easier to use) do seem to have advantages for larger works but are more

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Kracked_P_P wrote: I use LO to export my work to a PDF document that would work well on my tablets. All I needed to do is format the page size to the proper one that works best for tablet reading. I choose something along the page size used for paper-back books. So I format the page to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

On 07/09/2013 12:05 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: But, LO's navigator tool offers much of the same functionality without having to split your document up into many different files. With the navigator, you can jump from point to point within a single document based on headings, bookmarks, etc.

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On 07/09/2013 03:48 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: Kracked_P_P wrote: I use LO to export my work to a PDF document that would work well on my tablets. All I needed to do is format the page size to the proper one that works best for tablet reading. I choose something along the page size used

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Hi, I know this book: http://www.openoffice.org/documentation/whitepapers/Creating_large_documents_with_OOo.odt It's an old book, and is writed for OpenOffice, but the most important part is the same, and you can reuse in LibreOffice. I know an another book for you, but it's exists only in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

I have seen quote a bit of argument against using a master document for a book as I was exploring this subject just recently as well. The help docs of course are a good place to start. https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Master_Documents_and_Subdocuments There are a number of different tools for

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I'll probably be (justifiably) ostracized for this on a LO user list, but to me trying to write a book with LO Writer is like trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Yes, it can be done, but the labor involved may not be worth it. In my mind, Writer is a business application, useful for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

On 08/07/2013 at 22:58, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: but to me trying to write a book with LO Writer is like trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Yes, it can be done, but the labor involved may not be worth it. I think you merge two totally different ideas:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

. Virgil -Original Message- From: Mirosław Zalewski Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 5:51 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer On 08/07/2013 at 22:58, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: but to me trying to write a book with LO

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Hello Virgil! On 08/07/13 17:58, Virgil Arrington wrote: I'll probably be (justifiably) ostracized for this on a LO user list, but to me trying to write a book with LO Writer is like trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Yes, it can be done, but the labor involved may not be worth

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Hi! On 08/07/13 18:51, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 08/07/2013 at 22:58, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: but to me trying to write a book with LO Writer is like trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Yes, it can be done, but the labor involved may not be worth it. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

On 08/07/13 10:44, Nagy Ákos wrote: Hi, I know this book: http://www.openoffice.org/documentation/whitepapers/Creating_large_documents_with_OOo.odt It's an old book, and is writed for OpenOffice, but the most important part is the same, and you can reuse in LibreOffice. I know an another book

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

On 08/07/13 14:30, Marc Grober wrote: I have seen quote a bit of argument against using a master document for a book as I was exploring this subject just recently as well. The help docs of course are a good place to start. https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Master_Documents_and_Subdocuments

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Hi! On 08/07/13 21:29, Virgil Arrington wrote: Anytime I use a program like yWriter, I end up spending a lot of time later applying formatting that I could have applied on the fly with a decent word processor. That may not be a concern for a person whose work will be published, and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book Preview button in Print Preview Screen

:) From: Dr. R. O Stapf reinh...@stapf-online.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 12 November 2012, 12:29 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book Preview button in Print Preview Screen Although I am not writing books the feature described by CVAlkan is a very interesting one

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book Preview button in Print Preview Screen

Although I am not writing books the feature described by CVAlkan is a very interesting one. Especially if the settings could be made on a document base, rather than general. On 2012-11-12 02:14, CVAlkan wrote: Just for the record: I'm using Writer 3.6.1.2 on Ubuntu 12.04, but I don't think

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book Preview button in Print Preview Screen

:)  From: Dr. R. O Stapf reinh...@stapf-online.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 12 November 2012, 12:29 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book Preview button in Print Preview Screen Although I am not writing books the feature described by CVAlkan is a very

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book Preview button in Print Preview Screen

at leisure rather than having to get through it all in one go.  Regards from Tom :)  From: CVAlkan fobe...@enteract.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, 11 November 2012, 17:14 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Book Preview button in Print Preview